#Racism /

[pet-shop-of-horror-fan]

If you are going with the idea that an allegory must be intentional, then this stands.

If you are going with the idea that allegories can be unintentional- then this still stands.

If something functions as an allegory for racism, even if unintended, and it falls into this trope, it is a problem. No if, ands, or buts about it.

Allegories for racism where the victims had power over or were a threat to the aggressors at any point don’t work as allegories for racism

[canisvesperus]

It’s a good day to pay reparations. Natives may reblog with your own payment links.

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[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Drylongso (Cauleen Smith, 1998)

[allthecanadianpolitics]

[...] “God knows I see this in the national assembly every day, the construction of this other, this other who is North African, who is Muslim, who is Black, who is Indigenous, and whose culture, by definition, would be dangerous or inferior,” Bouazzi told the audience earlier this month.

He was called to order by the party’s two co-spokespeople, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois and Ruba Ghazal, who claimed that his statements were “clumsy, exaggerated and polarizing.” But Bouazzi didn’t back down, and during a radio interview on Radio-Canada Friday, he accused ministers Christian Dubé and Lionel Carmant of blaming immigrants for putting strain on health care and social services. [...]

The Coalition Avenir Québec has drafted a motion demanding that Mr. Bouazzi withdraw his remarks and apologize to all members of the legislature “who were targeted by his accusations of racism.” The opposition Liberals and Parti Québécois have also drafted motions calling on the legislature to affirm that its members are not racist. [...]

Party members gathered at a convention on Sunday appeared to be divided on the issue. Eleven Québec solidaire constituency associations publicly supported Bouazzi and called on the party to adopt a resolution denouncing what they described as a smear campaign against him. [...]

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland, @vague-humanoid, @palipunk

Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: if you didn't quite catch that, a Québec legislature ministre of Arab and North African origin got coerced by every party - including his own - into rescinding his comments about the racism he experiences and sees everyday from the Québec legislative assembly and its legislation. Québec is a gutter of racism and it will continue to fester with no end in sight as the fascism mounts and everyone refuses to acknowledge who the principle targets are.

[cobragardens]

Every time a man or pickme starts in about how feminists need to be nicer to sexist men I am copypasting ⬆️ post as my reply

I'm actually extremely triggered by being asked to reflect on my behavior and unlearn deeply rooted sexist and racist tendencies. You see I've been coddled like a baby my entire adult life and if you're not niceys to me I'll be forced to join the proud boys. This is a YOU problem btw

[velvetvexations]

Im tired of seeing takes with "trans men wont be serched for t ever cops dont care about men haha"

motherfuckera gotta be downright out out they DAMN mind jf they think I as a black men do not get unprompted searches and targets painted on me

I CANOT take the risk of illegal T where I am I have been searched unprompted for less than that! "Come back woth a warrent" only works if the cops care to listen dickwads. My home had had a breaking an entering from cops and not a damn soul gave a shit. Never even made local news.

Yall white bitches posting about how no one needs to be afraid of diy t, or "how are you gonna say be gay do crime but be afraid of this crime?"

Bitch I calculate any crime with extreme caution bc I'm not trying to fucking die?!?! If you're qhite and you ppst that shit you can straight up go commit an open crime then if you're so fucking safe.

The talk around diy hrt and transitioning illegally is white and privileged and I'm tried. Shut you white fucking mouths if you aren't gonna do anything but be degrading to people stuggling with their hormones being taken.

oh wow

the TRFs are just

straight up saying police don't care to go after Black men huh

It would all be horrifically stupid and hurtful anyway but the fact that they seriously think that being a man is a Cops Won't Bother You card is kinna making my head spin, like yes the cops do not target people specifically for being men but that does not mean that you can tell Black men and other men of color to do something illegal because cops will just wave them by

hell even White trans men are disproportionately assaulted by police which even if it's because of "transphobia" still. means. it's. not. safe to carry a controlled substance illegally.

oh my God this is so bleak please someone kill me shoot me in the fucking head please

[afriblaq]

Republicans’ “anti-DEI” bill is a disgrace. On one hand, it says that racism doesn't exist. On the other hand, it says there’s rampant “reverse racism." This is the unserious work of the Republican Party. P.S. they should keep MLK’s name out their mouth.

@reppressley

[theconcealedweapon]

Right Wing Dipshits: "There are people who I don't like and it would be awesome if they got electrocuted."

Right Wing Dipshits: "Why does everyone think I'm a Nazi?"

[cree-n-jewish-thoughts]

Aboriginal people aren't mad at Jews, we are mad at anyone different to be honest, because we have been oppressed and the subject of extreme bias and violence, for you.

All the land you live on in CAD, USA, AU, NZ?

Yeah it was stolen in savage and genocidal manner.

We still are stuck in barren wastelands for homes.

We are tired of empty apologies.

We are tired of you white people who "care about Aboriginal rights" but then use us as a political pawn to try to minimize others struggles.

You are the reason we hate anyone different, and being half Jew if more native people knew the truth they would be chanting with me.

Don't pretend to care, you don't know our struggles, our lack of rights, our lack of being treated with basic human dignity.

Stop taking about us, because you don't actually care or listen to us anyways so where is the difference in struggle?

Seriously?

[thebusylilbee]

Do you think that Western guilt over the Holocaust can explain the unwavering support for Israel's criminal actions ? The Holocaust is not my problem as a Palestinian. I didn't kill any Jews in Europe. I sympathize with what the Jewish people went through. But when my parents were expelled from their land in 1948, they had no radio or television, they didn't read the newspapers, they hardly knew what had happened to the Jews of Europe. They tended their fields and sometimes went swimming in the sea. If the West feels guilty towards the Jews, it has a responsibility towards the Palestinians. So encourage the Israelis to make peace rather than continuing to kill us by the thousands. Every time I hear a Western government explain that Israel has the right to defend itself, I wonder why we don't also hear that the Palestinian people have the right to live. “In Gaza, we don't know what we're guilty of”, you wrote. How far do you think Israel's collective punishment in the aftermath of October 7th can go ? Living in Gaza is like living in a Kafka novel. I was born in a refugee camp in 1992, but I didn't know what that meant - that I'd be a refugee for life. I couldn't imagine that I would be injured in an Israeli air strike because the West persecuted the Jews of Europe. And it is this same West, and particularly the United States, that is complicit in genocide, since when you supply arms rather than demand a ceasefire, in reality you are more than an accomplice, you are also the perpetrator of this genocide. The collective punishment of the Palestinians began in 1948 and has continued for decades, so it's hard to imagine how far it can go. [...]

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, interviewed for Mediapart by Joseph Confavreux, 24 nov. 2024. Source. [translation by me]

[jerrycummblr]

It's really simple. If you're born with a vagina and you naturally have elevated testosterone levels, you're a man. If you have a vagina and you take testosterone, you're a woman. But also if you have a vagina, you'll never be a man. But also if you have higher testosterone then you were never a woman. Woman never yes man a vagina testosterone no was an elevated. Vagina man.

[canonkiller]

I just think everyone should take a moment to consider the question "what is your visual shorthand for cruelty?" and then follow it up with a critical "and who taught you that?"

specific examples include but are not limited to

why is an evil timeline character design disabled? (why do the heroes go through equally punishing battles and never lose an arm, a leg, an eye?)

why are the futuristic scifi terrorists uniformly darker skinned? (why are the heroes so much lighter?)

why is the greedy boss fat? (why are the heroes skinny?)

why is the criminal mastermind heavily scarred? (why is the brooding, traumatized hero unscathed?)

why is the predatory creep a bearded person in a dress and makeup? (why are none of the heroes trans women?)

who taught you that this is how things are?

how long do you plan on repeating it?

[everlastingrandom]

This morning there was a nation-wide text spam campaign targeting Black Americans (largely students) telling them that they’ve been selected to pick cotton and will be picked up to be sent to a plantation after Trump’s inauguration.

People online are making jokes about it, but it’s genuinely a disturbing sign. Someone was emboldened enough to intentionally run a background on thousands of young Black people and send them racist messages the day after a very exhausting and stressful election.

[storyweavingspider]

I’d like to take those tags and add “and have been deemed disposable by society” At the end

Because it’s not solely that capitalism rejects them, their “peers” can reject them as well even separate from their worth to capitalism.

Both transfeminine disposability and the ways that Black people are made subhuman, though adjusted to suit each marginalized group, are rooted in the same white supremacist concepts and practices.

Leaving it solely at “capitalism” ignores the issues of white supremacy, and if capitalism is overthrown but white supremacy remains, we are not actually liberated.

[mwg-drwg]

I've seen little about it so, Just an FYI what's been unfolding in England today. Far-right protestors are literally trying to kill asylum seekers in hotels.

In Rotherham, Yorkshire fascists have tried to set a hotel on fire with migrants staying there. Some signalling cut-throat gestures at the people staying in the rooms.

In Tamworth, Staffordshire the very same thing is happening. Another hotel has been set on fire with asylum seekers still inside alongside racist graffiti.

Other similar protests that are going uncountered are happening in Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Stoke-on-Trent and many more areas, chances are there will be one somewhere by you if things keep going the way they are. Nazis are literally strolling about unchallenged and these people are marching happily with them. There are more sensitive videos online which I won't share here but there are groups of nazis chasing down and circling black people in cities and beating them up, indian and chinese takeaways being targetted, turkish barbers being set alight and there have been incidents of muslims being assaulted and even stabbed.

BUT... There are success stories from UK cities where riots have failed due to no turnout or due to antifascists driving far-right pricks out of the city.

Cardiff, Wales - About 5 fascists turn up compared to 500 conuter-protestors. They failed to get anyone here despite trying two times.

Liverpool, Merseyside - A significant EDL mob is marched out of the city and fought against. Counter-protestors form a ring around a mosque being targetted.

Bristol, City of - antifascists block the entrance to a hotel that nazis are trying to get into as well as a fierce citywide push against the EDL and racism.

Nottingham, East Midlands - A huge antifascist counter protest outnumbers EDL and the far-right, preventing a riot from occuring.

There are many many more of these riots planned. If you're in the UK get organised and be prepared to fight alongside the people who make our communities stong and resiliant and make our country and cities a wonderful vibrant and friendly place to be. Help by whatever means you can. If you are not from the UK then please signal boost this because this needs to stop this nastiness from spreading and to make nazis afraid again.

[victusinveritas]

My mom decided to weigh in on this, on the side of the Italian boxer, thinking I'd allow her to repeat bullshit talking points for some reason (never have allowed that shit, especially not from someone who raised me not to tolerate racism or anything that ends with someone being put down)...I made her stay on the line until she admitted she was wrong.